{"product_id":"tribal-names-of-the-americas-spelling-variants-and-alternative-forms-cross-referenced-9780786438334","title":"Tribal Names of the Americas: Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms, Cross-Referenced","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Patricia Roberts Clark\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Native American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Scholars have long worked to identify the names of tribes and other groupings in the Americas, a task made difficult by the sheer number of indigenous groups and the many names that have been passed down only through oral tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book is a compendium of tribal names in all their variants--from North, Central and South America--collected from printed sources. Because most of these original sources reproduced words that had been encountered only orally, there is a great deal of variation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Organized alphabetically, this book collates these variations, traces them to the spellings and forms that have become standardized, and supplies \u003ci\u003esee\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003esee also\u003c\/i\u003e references. Each main entry includes tribal name, the \"parent group\" or ancestral tribe, original source for the tribal name, and approximate location of the name in the original source material.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47609642025111,"sku":"9780786438334","price":4632.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786438334.webp?v=1775059409","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/tribal-names-of-the-americas-spelling-variants-and-alternative-forms-cross-referenced-9780786438334","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}